The business has changed. It used to be that movies made most of their money in the US and other English-speaking countries. Now it's all about the foreign markets, especially China. Comedy just doesn't translate well to a foreign language with a different culture. So instead they double down on the visual spectacle.
The business has changed. It used to be that movies made most of their money in the US and other English-speaking countries. Now it's all about the foreign markets, especially China. Comedy just doesn't translate well to a foreign language with a different culture. So instead they double down on the visual spectacle.
Boy, you are so right about the terrible sound & dialogue mixing. Makes one wonder exactly why it is so bad considering the - Great ? ... Tech available nowadays. It also seems to me it is both Movies AND TV. Now I gotta go & read the Slashfilm link you put up.
(Dang - so many good things to read today, I am never going to get to my own Music & Recording issues slated for today)
I think the takeaway from that slashfilm link is that there isn't one specific problem, but movie making is a complicated process, and sound and dialogue mixing is considered a low priority, so it just gets stepped on at every stage of production.
The business has changed. It used to be that movies made most of their money in the US and other English-speaking countries. Now it's all about the foreign markets, especially China. Comedy just doesn't translate well to a foreign language with a different culture. So instead they double down on the visual spectacle.
Along the same lines, a lot of movies now have absolutely terrible sound mixing, to the point where you can't even understand the dialogue: https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/. But if the audience is just watching the visual spectacle and reading translated subtitles, it doesn't matter anyway.
All the real energy for comedy is in smaller, niche productions where they know their audience and can target it accordingly.
Boy, you are so right about the terrible sound & dialogue mixing. Makes one wonder exactly why it is so bad considering the - Great ? ... Tech available nowadays. It also seems to me it is both Movies AND TV. Now I gotta go & read the Slashfilm link you put up.
(Dang - so many good things to read today, I am never going to get to my own Music & Recording issues slated for today)
I think the takeaway from that slashfilm link is that there isn't one specific problem, but movie making is a complicated process, and sound and dialogue mixing is considered a low priority, so it just gets stepped on at every stage of production.